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Random Road

Introducing Geneva Chase
Jul 14, 2017gogo12127 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
About half way through this book, I was thinking that, for a very intelligent young woman, she makes really dumb decisions about men: She's had three failed marriages and currently having an an affair with a sleazeball who is married and knows that his knows that he is having an affair and with whom; and Geneva knows that he is a sleazeball who is married and knows that his wife knows that he is having an affair and with whom. To top it off, Geneva is a committed alcoholic, and her supervisors have threatened to fire her, despite their respect for her journalistic skills, unless she gets her act together. In other words, Geneva is a multi-dimensional character: a newspaper reporter respected by her peers and the Sheffield police, intelligent, and driven, yet a flawed individual who makes dumb decisions about men and has a serious drinking problem. At the end of the book, Geneva is a recovering alcoholic, sober for eleven months and a guardian, who is taking steps to adopt the thirteen year-old daughter of a deceased life-long friend. (In some ways, Geneva Chase has morphed into Harry Bosch.) Will being a single mother who loves the thirteen year-old girl and who loves her back be able to remain sober while coping with the mood swings of a growing teenager? I look forward to the second Geneva Chase mystery to find out.